Tracks

Interop's content is focused on six core theme areas, listed below. View the sessions for each of these tracks in our Agenda.

Infrastructure

Adapt to the new age of software-driven technology with content on virtual environments, SDN and next-generation WANs, modernizing the data center, container technologies, and architectures that support mobility.

Tentative sessions include:

Is SDN Living up to the Hype?

Managing Storage in a Software-Defined World

Getting Started with Containers

Converged Infrastructure: What It is and When to Consider It

Wireless Advances You Must Know

Collaboration & Group Chat: Security & Control

Data & Analytics

Keep up with skyrocketing data and help your business leverage it by exploring database frameworks and integration, data governance and protection, and making the most of data through the Internet of Things, big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Tentative sessions include:

How to Become an Insight-Driven Business

Planning a Modern Data Infrastructure

Big Data Best Practices for the Cloud

Finding Data Talent for Your Team

IoT: Data Challenges & Strategies

Cloud

Use the cloud to your technical and business advantage by learning about public, private, and hybrid cloud, cloud applications, cloud cost models, migration and integration, cloud security, and managing workloads and performance.

Tentative sessions include:

Hybrid Cloud Security Strategies

Performance vs. Value: Cloud Metrics that Matter

Deploying Applications to The Cloud with Docker

AWS Lessons Learned

OpenStack Mistakes to Avoid

Security

Understand the growing threat landscape and how to mitigate risk with content on new attack vectors and how to detect them, security architectures, compliance and legal issues, ransomware, incident response, and network, mobile, and cloud security challenges.

Tentative sessions include:

Measuring & Managing Cyber Risk: Mapping IT Risk to Business Risk

Detecting & Rooting Out Insider Threats

Ransomware: How Your Business Can Respond

Security Strategies for Multi-Cloud Environments

Managing the Security Skills Shortage

DevOps

Bridge the gap between application development and IT operations by delving into continuous delivery, agile methodology, building cross-functional teams, and using DevOps concepts and tools for configuration management and automation.

Tentative sessions include:

Evolving Traditional Roles & Crossing Disciplines

Optimizing Your Continuous Delivery Strategy

Change Management: What’s Enough, What’s Too Much?

DevOps Talent: What's Needed for the Next 5 Years

Best Practices from the Best: DevOps Organizations on the Forefront

Leadership & Professional Development

Help your team and your own career flourish with insight into organizational structure and staffing, recruiting and retaining talent, building an IT budget, innovating with IT, and business skills for success.